Classic Car Buyer

Having spent more years than I care to remember working on car magazines, I’ve just realised that this will be the first year I can remember not making the yearly pilgrimage to the NEC for the Classic Motor Show. Indeed, for a video spot on this year

We were struck by this exhibit on a recent visit to the British Motor Museum and if it looks familiar then you’d be right: it’s a Daimler SP250 ‘Dart’ but not as we know it. The car was restyled with input from William Lyons himself following Jaguar’

Historics has had to delay its public-facing season finale auction at Ascot Racecourse until December 12, but it looks set to be well worth the wait, with a seven-strong collection of cars used for film and TV work set to go under the hammer. The ven

For most of the decimated 2020 show calendar, the hope for a full 2021 season helped to keep everyone positive. But with a rise in Covid-19 cases leading to extended travel restrictions throughout Europe and the re-imposition of lockdown in England t

Quite a few eyebrows might have been raised at this November’s ACA auction thanks to a number of cars taking big money. Some of the top performers are pictured here, but in fact it seems that the strength of bidding ran through the whole event, with

Morris Leslie is bringing us another striking mix of eccentricities and some great examples of the more mainstream classic cars. Bids are only to be taken via telephone or the internet, but Morris Leslie has had success with these hands-off auctions

Despite making its debut in the early Sixties, the TE21’s gracious lines were inherited from the 3.0-litre two-door Graber-bodied TD.21-100 that appeared at the 1955 Geneva Show. You can distinguish it from its predecessors by its twin vertically sta

There are plenty of cars that are entertaining on the right road, on the right day, which encourage you to put your foot down and to have some fun. But here’s the thing. So many classic car enthusiasts never use their full potential. Let us be honest

With muscle-bound pony cars stealing the limelight in the US market, it was inevitable their mix of stylish bodywork and simple mechanical underpinnings would arrive in Europe. Ford got there first, releasing the Capri in 1969, but it didn’t take GM

Now here’s something completely different. This week in November 1960 we’re looking from the operator’s cab 200 feet above the catwalk of the Tees Transporter Bridge in Middlesbrough. Opened in 1911, the famous bridge is still running having survived

It’s now 20 years since the Mercedes SLK arrived here in the UK, and it arrived during an era when many significant motor show concept cars became production reality – think Porsche Boxster and Audi TT for starters. The Mercedes SLK R170 began life a

Production Editor Contact: Paul Matty Sports Cars, Bromsgrove B60 1DE Tel: 01527 835 656 paulmattysportscars.co.uk The Seven is about as Lotus as you can get. The natural evolution of the Mark VI, its first production car, the Seven ran from the 1950

Editorial Assistant I know the 205 is prone to rot – it is after all 28 years old, it’s French and this one has been round the block a few times – but what I wasn’t quite prepared for was how much rust it had. I was pretty certain it was limited to a